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12-05-2005, 03:02 PM
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Re: The Best Autobiographies
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Mark Twain's is wonderful. [/ QUOTE ] that does sound good thanks, one of the best books seems to be The Education Of Henry Adams, anyone read that? 
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12-05-2005, 03:35 PM
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Re: The Best Autobiographies
I tend not to be fans of autobiographies, they are almost always self-serving, but Isaac Asimov's two-volume autobio - "In Memory Yet Green" and "In Joy Still Felt" are about as good an autobiography as you'll ever read.
If I ever get ambitious, I'll read Ulysses Grant's autobio, which is supposed to be by far the best of the presidential ones.
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12-05-2005, 01:19 PM
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Re: The Best Autobiographies
 One of the least read Hemingway books, but one of my favorites. The diary of Anais Nin is great too, for the whole Paris in the 20's thing. I guess these are both wrong for the thread since one's a memoir and the other's a Journal...but all the really good autobios have been mentioned.
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12-05-2005, 02:09 PM
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Re: The Best Autobiographies
LT: On the Edge - Lawrence Taylor
Benjamin Franklin Orel Hershiser - Out of the Blue ScottieK
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12-05-2005, 03:44 PM
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Re: The Best Autobiographies
H.L. Mencken wrote a series of 'Days' volumes that are autobiographical (Happy Days, Newspaper Days, Heathen Days). The works were then collected into one volume and published simply as 'The Days of H.L. Mencken'. This book is superb. Almost on par with Mark Twain's autobiography which everyone should read, because it is so wonderful as Andy Fox states.
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